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UC Berkeley musicology professor Nicholas Mathew sits for the camera, next to a still photo of an Olympian.

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Watch a UC Berkeley professor break down the origins and stories behind national anthems

From Britain's "God Save the King" to South Africa’s “Nkosi Sekelel’ iAfrika," here's what makes national anthems tick.

Camilo and five other AileyCampers practice a dance on stage in 2009

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Dance prepared him for the NFL. It began with a Berkeley summer camp.

Close up of Alisha Gaines

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Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

part of the cover for the documentary

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Film changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.

Jeff MacKie-Mason, dressed in all black, sits on a couch and smiles for a portrait

Jeff MacKie-Mason has seen the future of libraries

Jeff Davis, the retiring university carillonist, sits on the bench of the grand carillon on the observation deck of the Campanile. His body is turned toward the camera and he's wearing eye glasses, a beard, a short-sleeved plaid shirt and a smile.

Retiring University Carillonist Jeff Davis reflects on ‘the coolest job in the world’

Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her twin

Daniella laughs with a friend as she interviews her in a podcast studio

As graduation nears, student creates a ‘time capsule’ of her Berkeley experience

Professor Nicholas Mathew holds up a 500-year-old manuscript to a group of visiting middle school students

Middle school students explore musical treasures from special Berkeley collections

Anthony stands in a gallery at BAMPFA

I’m a Berkeleyan: BAMPFA Senior Curator Anthony Graham asks, Why now? And why here?

Circle-shaped headshots of Jennifer Redfearn and John Connelly, UC Berkeley's newest recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, are in shades of blue.

UC Berkeley historian, documentary filmmaker are 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Two images side by side: The first is a book cover of The Ministry for the Future; second is Kim Stanley Robinson holding a mic while giving a talk

Berkeley Talks: Sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the need for ‘angry optimism’

Two actors interact on stage, bathed in a reddish orange light. One actor, wearing a wedding dress and a veil, turns away from the other actor, who is facing her back and appears to be pleading with her.

Student designers build a magical realm for Brazilian folktale ‘The River Bride’

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

Machine Dazzle, dressed in a huge wig made of bright red and a few yellow fake roses, a red, white and blue tinsel dress and long red velvety gloves with bright makeup covering his face, poses for a portrait

Meet the designer behind the out-of-this-world costumes of ‘Bark of Millions’

A black-and-white photo of a young man without a shirt on holding and squeezing the bare skin on his chest with a pained expression on his face

Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

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